Search pathways in KEGG

In this page we'll review the steps to search metabolic pathways in KEGG.

Searching
To access this feature you click on Metabolic Pathways button located in the main page.

Once you click the button, on the right pane you'll find Search in KEGG as an available operation, click on it. It will redirect you to a simple form with just one entry to write on.

Even though you are seaching for a metabolic pathway, most of the time researchers only know one or two compounds participating in that reaction chain so the search is based on the compounds taking part in the pathway.

The next step is to input the compound name or just part of it and click on the Search button.

Viewing the results
As part of the results you'll encounter a page with all matching compounds in the compound database of KEGG.

Some of them have pathways related to them so you can click on the code link to view detailed information about that specific pathway.

If you clicked on one of those links, on the top of the page, in the ENTRY section, there is a link to get the image of that pathway.